Each month in 2021 I am creating a project that combines 3 challenges. I make a placemat for Joy's Table Scraps, using some mini blocks for Wendy's mini link up, with the colour of the month from the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, which is purple for June. A Challenge Trifecta!
I started this month with a bag of HSTs that a friend shared with me. I think these were from Jackie since it looks like her handwriting. I pulled out the purple ones and added some brighter HSTs from another bag of scraps. The HST blocks turned out to finish at 1.25", and there are 52 of them in this project.These are the 13 pinwheel blocks I ended up with and this photo shows playtime on the design wall trying to figure out what layout the quilt wanted and what fabrics to use. The dark purple got voted off the island all together! I decided that an on point layout was fun with these pinwheels and added white sashing.Somehow I miscalculated the math (so what else is new?!) and you can see the edges aren't aligned.
That's okay with me. The trimming chopped off some of the white points, but I thought it still looked okay. I added two strips on the sides to make it rectangular. Then I bin basted and got to work machine quilting with white thread on the top and purple in the bobbin.
The backing fabric is a black and white stripe FQ that I hand dyed many years ago. It was the perfect backing for this little quilt, and my granddog Max was happy to be my quilt model.
As you can see I quilted some diamonds in the side fabric strips. But once it was finished, I was unhappy with the white blobs in the side fabric strips.
So I got out my Setacolor paints and had a bit of painting fun. I covered the white blobs with a bit of purple paint.That's a little better!
Great use of those purple scraps....a little bird told me there is another bag of scraps that will soon arrive in your mailbox!
ReplyDeleteYour are very creative Kathy, love the layout.
ReplyDeletePurple and pinwheels--a winning combination. Excellent use of scraps!
ReplyDeleteYou certainly do have fun playing with tiny little pieces. I love pinwheels, even though they can be frustrating at times. I started making some little ones with cut-offs from another project, but they've fallen by the wayside temporarily.
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Oh yes! You can't go wrong with purple - my second favorite color! Thanks for another colorful mini!!
ReplyDeleteVery creative with the painting. It fixes most needs.
ReplyDeleteGreat way to use up scraps, and a great finish.
ReplyDeleteSlick trick with those paints, Kathy, and the chopped off sashing looks like it was supposed to be that way!! Thanks for linking your pretty PURPLE placemat with the June 2021 TABLE SCRAPS Challenge!
ReplyDeleteThose pinwheels made a great placemat! I like the way you set them with the white sashing and the pretty purple setting triangles and borders, too. Neat idea to add paint where you didn't like those blobs!
ReplyDeleteI like how you used all those pinwheels!! it turned out perfect!!
ReplyDeleteYour pinwheels and sashings are smashing.
ReplyDeleteGreat combination from scraps. I enjoyed reading about your thought process and I eye catching end result.
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love the purples and blues of this mini! Great job with all those triangles/pinwheels.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt looks perfect! I did get a chuckle when the dark purple got voted off the island.
ReplyDeleteso pretty....purple is one color i hardly use but you have inspired me to raid my stash for some
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